(Times - UK) - Dr. Khidir Hamza was regarded as the "father" of the Iraqi nuclear program until fleeing to the United States in 1994. He is convinced that Iraqi nuclear weapons development has continued. "Inspectors since 1991 have gone to the [Tuwaitha nuclear] site to check things out and have walked right past our locked room where we were working on enrichment,” Dr. Hamza said. UN inspectors, according to Dr. Hamza, failed to uncover most of the clandestine work that now threatens the West and the rest of the Middle East.
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